Mulcahy, Couperus win SUNYAC crowns
An exhausted Collin Mulcahy (Batavia/Batavia) collapsed into his coach's arms on Saturday after winning a SUNYAC Championship in the one-mile run at Brockport.
On the second day of SUNYAC Indoor Track and Field Championships, Mulcahy ran just footsteps behind Geneseo's Isaac Garcia-Cassani, whom he had never beaten before, until pulling ahead the final lap of the race. His time 4:08.76 puts him at No. 4 in NCAA Division III as of Saturday evening.
The men's team finished in sixth place with 80.5 points, while the women were fifth with 74.5 points.
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| Sarah Couperus after clearing 1.63 meters in the high jump. |
On the women's side, Sarah Couperus (Marion, N.Y./Marion) won a SUNYAC title in the high jump with a personal best clearance of 1.63 meters. Brittany Feldman (Jamestown/Southwestern) took third in the same event (1.53 meters). Feldman also scored in the 400-meter dash, finishing third (58.78), and the 200-meter dash, finishing seventh (26.28).
Saturday's men's highlights:
The competitors in the men's weight throw dominated the podium on Saturday. Sawyer Bell (Middletown, N.Y./Roy C. Ketchum) took second (16.81 meters), Kyle Brown (Hamburg/Hamburg) third (16.48 meters), Hsin Chin (Pleasant View/Arlington) fourth (15.46 meters), and Kevin Geiser (Corning/Notre Dame) fifth (14.44 meters).
Nick Serafin (Depew/Depew) finished seventh and Rocky Caparro (Staten Island/Susan E. Wagner) eighth in the high jump with personal best clearances of 1.93 meters and 1.88 meters, respectively.
Kyle Collins finished second in the 3,000-meter run (8:31.66), just half-a-second behind Cortland's Mitch Ryan (8:31.12). Zakk Hess (Newark, N.Y./North Rose-Wolcott) took third (8:36.11).
Saturday's women's highlights
Laura Morrison (Wethersfield, Conn./Wethersfield) finished second in the one-mile run (5:02.93), behind Oneonta's Rachel Shine (4:58.52). Stephanie Wojnowski (Rochester, N.Y./Eastridge) was 13th (5:23.73).
Hannah Kurbs (Lockport/Lockport) took 13th in the 3,000-meter run (10:37.89).
